October 24, 2012

Toward Strategic Cooperation between India, the United States, and Europe

My policy brief on relations between India, the United States, and Europe was published by GMF on October 24, 2012. A summary is below, and the full text can be accessed here.

The fifth India Trilateral Forum identified several areas of convergence
between India, the United States, and Europe. These included a shared sense of
stability despite continuing political paralysis, guarded optimism about India’s
economic future, a commitment to Afghanistan’s development beyond 2014, a desire
for stable relations with China despite concerns about its unfair economic
practices, the necessity of Myanmar’s gradual democratization and regional
economic integration, and the need for stronger international regimes to enable
continued access to space and an open Internet.

But the Forum also
highlighted important areas of divergence, provoking questions deserving of
further discussion. These pertained to the importance of Indian economic reforms
for future cooperation, the prospects of deeper trade relations, ways to alter
Pakistan’s strategic calculus, the effects of greater economic interdependence
with China, and the importance of Bangladesh to India’s integration with
Southeast Asia.